Paulius Saudargas

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Paulius Saudargas MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 July 2024
Constituency	Lithuania
Deputy Speaker of the Seimas
In office 17 November 2020 – 15 July 2024
Member of Seimas
In office 13 November 2020 – 15 July 2024
Preceded by	Position established Himself (Justiniškės)
Succeeded by	Linas Kukuraitis
Constituency	Justiniškės – Viršuliškės
In office 16 November 2008 – 13 November 2020
Constituency	Justiniškės
Preceded by	Rimantas Remeika
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Personal details
Born	(1979-03-13) 13 March 1979 (age 45) Kaunas, Lithuania
Political party	Homeland Union
Spouse	Milda Saudargė
Parent	Algirdas Saudargas (father)
Alma mater	Vilnius University

Paulius Saudargas (born 13 March 1979 in Kaunas) is a physicist, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, Member of the Seimas for the Justiniškės constituency since 2008 and holds a PhD in biophysics.^[1]

In 2001 graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Vilnius University, obtained a bachelor's degree in physics and a qualification of a physics teacher. In 2003 he obtained a master's degree in biophysics at Vilnius University, and in 2007 a PhD in biophysics, specialising in photoelectric, electroacoustic and spectroscopic studies of bacteriorhodopsin.^[2]

From 1999 to 2000, he was a senior specialist in the Second Department of Operational Services under the Ministry of National Defense of Lithuania. In 2003, he worked as an engineer in the Laboratory of Electrical Quantities of the Institute of Semiconductor Physics. Between 2002 and 2007 (intermittently) he was an engineer in the Laboratory of Molecular Derivatives Physics of the Institute of Physics. Field of work – research of light-sensitive proteins by spectroscopic, photoelectric and electroacoustic methods.

From 2004 to 2005, he was a member of the board of the Young Christian Democrats. Between 2005 and 2007, Saudargas was a member of the board of the Lithuanian Council of Youth Organizations (LiJOT) and the Chairman of the Ethics Committee.

He is a member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, and was deputy executive secretary from 2007 to 2008.^[3]

Since 2008 Saudargas is a Member of the Seimas, elected in Justiniškės constituency.^[1]

Alongside Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Audronius Ažubalis and Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė, Saudargas is considered to be a member of the party's Christian Democratic wing, which opposes the party's line on same-sex partnerships and other social questions.^[4]